New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-05-11

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much difference, when it comes to.
Wooing. between princes and cobblers.s
The diary, read in connection with
other publications by the queen, shows
us two sides of her character. One is
the good, kindly woman going around
with flannel petticoats for old women,
and passionately devoted to her chill
dren; the other is the monarch, keenly
attentive to public business. She is
interesting in both points of view.
Perhaps the most pathetic passages
of the diary are those in which she de
scribes the receipt Of the news OF the
death OF the prince imperial. Whether
or no he was engaged to Princess
Beatrice, there can be no doubt that
the queen and her daughter were very
fond of him. The news could not have
shocked them more had it been the
death OF one OF their own family It
reached the queen on the eve OF the
anniversary OF her accession, but, as
she says, she had no heart for celebra-
tions. All gala was postponed. An
other pleasant picture is thereceipt Of
the news of the battle OF Tel ell
Kebir. The queen, Beatrice and
Louise, wife OF the duke Of
Connaught, were staying at Balmoral
when Wolseley's telegram announcing
the victory reached her majesty. He
took care to mention that the duke
OF Connaught had distinguished him
self, and was sale. Straight, these
two women, his mother and his wife,
fell upon each other necks and wept
in concert, AS women will do on re-
ceipt of good or bad news, either. A
few days afterward the mails came,
and Louisa had long letter from the
duke. The queen went to her room
| and 'sdear Louischen read me parts
of Arthur's letter." 'Parts' is good.
At the beginning Of this paperit was
said that the queen began public life
as whig. She soon learned that to
get along comfortably she must, in
Lord Melbourne's phrase, "HoId out
the olive branch to the tories" Albert
| speedily took strictly non-partisan
position and after time she followed
his example. Indeed, from about
1915, she has taken little part in do
nestle politics. Whatever minister
parliament wanted was acceptable to
her. But she has always taken an
active part in foreign politics. In
deed, it might be said of her to some
extent that she has always been her
| own foreign minister. She has more
! than once-as in the Don Pacitico at
fair given way against her Judgment
to the ministry Of the day, but never
without remonstrance. When Lord
Palmerston sent foreign dispatches
without consulting her, she protested,
and directed him in writing not only
to communicate all dispatches to her
| before sending them off, but to s'give
/ the queen a. reasonable time to &C
! quaint herself with their contents
/ When Palmerston neglected to comply
/ with this request she insisted on his
resignation. When Lord John Rus
sell wrote an irritating dispatch on
the Trent affair, intending to provoke
this country into war, she and Prince
Albert modified it. and insisted on it's
being sent as modified. The theory
of the British constitutional system
is that the monarch is puppet in the
hands of the ministry; tut Queen Vic.
toria. ir foreign matters, has a decid
ed will Of her own, and few British
sCaVes1neH Care 10 JeSG tne eACeHG o.
her prerogative.
i The queens life has been divided
thus far into three parts; her child
hood, eighteen years; her married life
twenty-one years; her sorrowing
widowhood. twenty-six years. IT, as
is possible, she would live to the age
OF the German emperor, she would
have a fourth period OF over twenty
years, of possible usefulness.